Cybersecurity in 2023: Principle 5 — Integrate and Automate Everything

This blog post is our 5th post in our 5 Principles Blog series. 

We've come up with a new approach that makes security easier and more efficient for businesses. We based it on five ideas we came up with during the project. Our goal is to make security admin effortless and enjoyable. Through careful planning, we've created a system that not only strengthens security, but also makes managing it simpler.

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Let’s look at the 5th principle: Integrate and Automate Everything 

The Problem

There is a lot to do in cybersecurity management. A lot of moving pieces and parts that all come together in one holistic program. When we look at other aspects of life in general, from buying movie tickets to grocery shopping, technology is used to make tedious activities simpler and faster through automation, so humans can spend more time being human.

In an industry like cybersecurity, automation is already in use. On what I call the technical ‘side’ of our industry, Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) and similar concepts make full use of automation. The technical folks grew SOAR out of necessity and began maturing predecessor technologies like SEM and SIEM over a decade ago.

But the management side of the cybersecurity industry is only now starting to catch on. In some organizations, covering all the bases could mean having to go to 15 or 20 different locations across multiple systems and chasing maybe 40 or 50 co-workers who might be sitting on the information you need to complete a report. That takes a lot of time and effort you might need to repeat month in, month out. 

The Solution

It would be much better if you could find ways to automate as many elements as possible. Some software lets you do this OK and other apps don't do this so well and, in any event, you've still got the problem of having to do this for each of them. The Rivial Platform, on the other hand, can take on collection, collation, and processing duties across many apps. Just point it in the right direction, and very soon, you can have the single, comprehensive report you need to present to stakeholders with minimal loss of time or effort. 

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The platform has a ‘pointy-clicky’ integration and automation builder for users to dynamically connect external tools. It's highly customizable, so once set up, it can seamlessly automate all those tedious duties across different cybersecurity management functions that would otherwise have to be done manually. Then, at the end of it, all it takes is one click to generate the report that would previously have taken several days to produce.

For CISOs, vCISOs, MSPs, and anyone with a strategic role who is overburdened with tedious tasks and mired in day-to-day tactical work, this makes the Rivial Platform a huge time saver that enables you to get your head out of the weeds to focus on what is important — properly communicating and collaborating with businesspeople.

An Information Security Director at a financial institution who uses the Rivial Platform has been able to save three or four full days each month updating her risk register so she could be ready to report to the Board. She is now just spending a few minutes on the task because the platform does everything for her automatically.

In closing, this marks the culmination of our 5 Principles Blog series, where we've unveiled a groundbreaking approach to effortlessly enhance organizational security. Rooted in five meticulously crafted principles, our mission is to simplify the complex landscape of cybersecurity management. Learn more about Rivial’s platform here. 

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